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Ahhhhhh....Now I Get It!

I've been pulling my hair out (whatever little I have left) trying to understand the dynamics of the "health care reform" fiasco.

Our national soap opera has brought out the worst in many people over an issue that one would think the vast majority of people - anyone in fact who has lived with the insanity and inhumanity of the insurance corporations. Yet something bigger came into play. Something I simply couldn't understand.

But today, it began to make sense. Take away all the rhetoric and bombast, and what do you have?

You have a political victory by one party over another in an area that affects virtually every American in his or her life. Health Care is needed universally, even if it isn't universally available even yet in this country.

But the Democrats have won a major social battle that will be seen as a landmark in American history.

And this, THIS, is what has driven the Republicans, hate radio, Fox News, wingnuts and others in the madcap political arena to lose all sense of perspective and morality in this battle.

But Barack Obama has won!. This black President has changed America in a significant and permanent way.

So more than anything else, as correct-thinking people in this country celebrate, be aware that this is thing that sticks in the craw of so many people who harbor so much hatred for America and Americans on this great and wonderful day.

posted by mauiloa @ 3:19 PM